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Police report details Cam Jordan incident

New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton said the team is currently in the process of gathering information related to an alleged nightclub incident involving defensive end Cam Jordan early Sunday morning.

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Police report details Cam Jordan incident

Lyons Yellin
Published 2:34 p.m. CT Sept. 9, 2015

Patriots running back Travaris Cadet is stopped on a carry by Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan during the Aug. 22 preseason game in New Orleans. The Saints are investigating an incident that occurred Sunday morning involving Jordan.(Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP)

NEW ORLEANS — One of two incident reports filed by New Orleans Police detectives in the incident involving New Orleans Saints defensive end Cameron Jordan, portrays a couple who felt scorned, then blamed.

It also says Orleans Parish Sheriff’s deputies working paid details at the club refused to investigate the incident, even though the couple tried to report it to them immediately after it happened.

The names of the couple were redacted by police before they released the report. An additional incident report over the alleged swatting of the woman’s backside is mentioned in the narrative.

Police describe the couple walking into Republic night club in the Warehouse District late Saturday in the report. They passed Jordan on their way in. It then describes a confrontation in the bathroom in which the man accused Jordan of disrespecting him and his girlfriend.

The police report says Jordan asked the man how much he weighed, then picked him up in public view “while passersby took pictures.” The man told police Jordan said he had struck other people for less, but put him down and let him go.

Later, the couple once again walked by Jordan, Jordan shook hands with the man, but had champagne in his hand. The incident report describes Jordan shaking up the bottle of champagne, pointing it at the woman and dousing her with it.

At that point, the couple said the club bouncers escorted them out of the club “like they were wrong.” Once outside, they told the Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputies who were working paid details that the incident happened and that they wanted it investigated. According to the report, the deputies refused.

Louisiana State Police officers advised the couple to report the incident to the NOPD. They went to the 8th District Headquarters building in the French Quarter to report it.

The report then goes on to describe the sheriff’s deputies’ reluctance to cooperate with the investigation. One of three told New Orleans Police Sgt. Sam Dupre that the club had been packed and that there were about 10 Saints players inside.

Another of the three deputies, according to the report, told Dupre that the surveillance cameras only pointed at the bar and the front door and that there was no video of the incident.

The New Orleans Police Department has not yet released the second incident report associated with the scuffle.